The Village of Brockport is one of 13 non-profit organizations and municipalities that will receive Erie Canalway IMPACT! Grants in 2021 totaling $108,787. The grants advance work to preserve and showcase canal heritage, educate youth, and welcome people to explore the canal in their local communities.
Brockport is receiving a grant of $4,830 to refurbish or create interpretive materials to better share the story of the Erie Canal – a vital part of the village’s past, present, and future – with residents and visitors. Interpretive materials to be upgraded include the following:
•Two damaged interpretive panels along the Erie Canal will be replaced. One on the north bank highlights the opening of the canal’s Brockport to Buffalo section in October 1825. The other, on the south side of the canal at the Village’s Welcome Center, depicts Brockport’s history of manufacturing.
•Interpretive cards explaining the Erie Canal-themed mural, taken from a colorful illustration from Peter Spier’s children’s book, The Erie Canal, located above the Lift Bridge Book Shop at 45 Main Street.
•Phebe the Mule will be replaced, as time and weather have damaged the statue; signage explaining the meaning of the sculpture and its significance will be added.
•Updated color brochures for the Brockport Community Museum’s interpretive panel walking tour of the Village.
•Archival quality display case for the Morgan Manning House, to display and conserve Manning family artifacts related to their canal manufacturing business, which was nestled on the banks of the Erie Canal and is now the site of Harvester Park.
IMPACT! Grants are made possible with funding support provided by the National Park Service and the NYS Canal Corporation.
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